ENCANTO BOOKS

About

Encanto Books (pronunciation: /en-kan-toh/) represents a collection of approximately 5,000 first edition books acquired over a period of forty years. The collection is comprised primarily of hardcover fiction, but includes a sizable number of 1950’s and 1960’s pulp paperback publications as well. Spanning a timeframe from the 1930’s Depression era all the way up to the present day, the collection has something of interest for virtually any serious antiquarian.

In searching the Encanto Books website, you will see that a majority of the books for sale are true first editions, first printings; tantalizing, many of these are signed editions, too. While the collection has great depth and scope overall, there is no denying that our greatest interest was reserved for finding books of a particular genre of fiction: mysteries.

Encanto Books has succeeded in collecting virtually the entire output from some of the greatest American mystery writers ever. In perusing the website, you will see that in many cases you will not only have the opportunity to acquire the first book in a series about a gumshoe who straddles the legal line, but instead, rare first editions of the entire series.

Unlike many other antiquarian websites, all of our books have been photographed thoroughly, enabling you to evaluate your product before purchasing it. While most of our business is conducted over the internet, appointments can be made to view books in person.

Jason Johnson

Encanto Books

“Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.”

A.S. Byatt

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

Carl Sagan

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

E.L. Doctorow

"No two persons ever read the same book."

Edmund Wilson

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

Groucho Marx

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

Jhumpa Lahiri

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

Maya Angelou

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

Ray Bradbury

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Ernest Hemingway

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

Abraham Lincoln

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”

J.K. Rowling

“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”